To:V. A. SMOLYANINOV[1]

Written:Written on September 4, 1921Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeSmolyaninov:

Thequestion ofcommodity exchangeis themost importantone. You are to give ittop priority.

Inparticular:

1)findProdovolstvennaya GazetaNo. 97 andincludein
this file;

2)proposethat theCentral Uniono/Consumers’
Societies should amplify thesedata of Khinchuk’s andprintthem;

3)sendme what has been printed, stepping up the
printing;

4)insertan item inEkonomicheskaya Zhizngiving all
manner of encouragement to thecollectionand publication
offactualdata on the commodity exchange (thequantities,
or theequivalentsof some quantities).

[1]Writtenin connection with a note from L. M. Khinchuk,
Chairman of the Central Union of Consumers’ Societies, about
improving commodity exchange in Orel, Bryansk and Gomel gubernias.

OnJune 17, 1921, No. 97 ofProdovolstvennaya Gazetacarried
an article entitled “Experience in State Commodity Exchange”.